Geography of Innovation - Public Policy Renewal and Empirical Progress

Within the European context of innovation for growth, public and corporate actors are faced with pressing questions concerning innovation policy and the return on public and private investment in innovation at the regional level. To help them answer these questions, researchers in the field of Geography of Innovation propose interesting developments and new perspectives for the analysis of localized innovation processes, interactions between science, technology and industry, and their impact on regional growth and competitiveness, offering new foundations for designing and evaluating public policies.
The aim of this book is firstly to highlight major recent methodological advances in the Geography of Innovation, particularly concerning the measurement of spatial knowledge externalities and their impact on agglomeration effects. Strategic approaches using microeconomic data have also contributed to showing how firms' strategies may interact with the local environment and impact upon agglomeration dynamics.
Interesting new results emerge from the application of these new methodologies to the analysis of innovation dynamics in European regions and this book shows how they can help revisit some of the main tenets of received wisdom concerning the rationale and impact of public policies on the Geography of Innovation. This book was previously published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

List of contents

1. Geography of Innovation: New Trends and Implications for Public Policy Renewal 2. Regional Heterogeneity and Interregional Research Spillovers in European Innovation: Modelling and Policy Implications 3. Knowledge, Innovation and Productivity Gains across European Regions 4. Do Technology Leaders Deter Inward R&D Investments? Evidence from Regional R&D Location Decisions in Europe 5. Industry-Specific Firm Growth and Agglomeration 6. Marshall’s versus Jacobs’ Externalities in Firm Innovation Performance: The Case of French Industry 7. Regional Knowledge Flows and Innovation Policy: A Dynamic Representation

About the author

Nadine Massard

Summary

The aim of this book is firstly to highlight major recent methodological advances in the Geography of Innovation, particularly concerning the measurement of spatial knowledge externalities and their impact on agglomeration effects.

Product details

• Authors: Nadine (University Grenoble Alpes Massard
• Assisted by: Corinne Autant-Bernard (Editor), Nadine Massard (Editor), Massard Nadine (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780367528621
• ISBN: 978-0-367-52862-1
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Regions and Cities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Economic Geography, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Central government policies